The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-27

both the t0W0 anu lLS Suuu1o'' Law
booms that are raging like an epidemic at
Birmingham and Sheffield, and Selma
and Chattanooga are all based upon
manufactures. We ought to have a
boom in Barlow, for we have as much
iron and more manganese, and finer
water power than is this side of the Mig
sissippi. There is property right here
on the banks of the Etowah, consisting
of seventeen thousand acres that is
worth more 10 minerals than any that
can be found, but the boom has not
struck it yet. 1t will strike it before
lorg, and when northern capital plants
here her furnaces and rolling mills we
farmers will all get fat, for there will be
a demand for everything that we can
raise. So we will possess our souls with
patience and wait awhile longer for the
boom. saw big load Of fodder going
by this morning. 1t was made ten miles
from town and will bring about four dol.
lars when it gets there. 1t ought to
bring twice that at home. Nobody can
stand these prices but the negroes, and
they don't care whether their labor
brings little or much. They will spend
it all anyhow for triaes and be happy
still.
The farm is home and that is all,
and that is good deal. 1t is the pleas
ATTEST home in the world. There is
nothing like it in town or city. 1t is
the best place to raise up the children; (;
the best places for grandchildren to
come to and frolic and be happy, but 10
make it success the farmers must have
something outside some other income,
either from labor or capital. Sanford
Bell has good little farm and he enjoys
it, but be says it takes most of his income
as conductor to keep everything square
at home. If depended on my farm for
a support, We wouldent exactly perish,
but we wonld get awfully hungry some,
times. used to be a farmer, but I am
only landlord now. One by one my
boys have quit NE for more profitable
employment, and so I rent out most of
my land now. My rents pay the taxes
and keep up the gates aud fences and
other repairs, and feed the team that has
to go to town most every day, and keep
up the COWS and the sheep and the hogs
and the fowls, and pay for the wear and
tear of the wagon aud buggies and har-
ness, and kceps us in 6rewood and fun,
and not much more. 1. does not feed us
nor clothe us, nor send the children to
school, nor pay the preacher, nor enter
tain good friends, nor provide this means
for the girls to visit in Rome or Atlanta
once or twice in while. But it is a
home with latitute and longitude and
beautiful scenery and fruits and flowers
abounding everywhere TO sweetcn and
make glad the rosy days of childhood
aud keep the old folks calm and serene.
1t is house that is happy and precious
Every shiugle on the roof. every brick in
the hearth, every shade tree in the front
yard, every vine over the door is friend.
When I return from my wanderings
and mount the hill that oveilcoks this
delightful place, my tired heart rebounds
with gratitude as see the light that is
in the window fur me. I never pass a
house on the road without feeling OF
reverence and respect for it, even though
/ do not know whether it is happy or
miserable. God bless our home and
incline us all to love them and make
them as happy as we eau. Let there be
no complainings, no unkind words within
that sacred shelter, fur underneath that
roof we are to be happy or miserable as
we choose-yes, just as we choose.
BILL ARP. :.